Wilayat al-Sahel

Wilayat al-Sahel (English: Shore Province) is a self-proclaimed province of the Islamic State, based in Tartus Governorate and Latakia Governorate on the Mediterranean Sea coast of Syria. The province was announced on 23 May 2016 when it claimed responsibility for the 2016 Jableh and Tartus bombings, a series of coordinated suicide and car bombings that killed nearly 150 people and wounded at least 200.